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Facebook says accounts of nearly 50 million users were breached in attack

SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook says the accounts of nearly 50 million users were breached.  Attackers exploited a feature in Facebook's code that allowed them to take over users' accounts. The breach was discovered Tuesday afternoon. Facebook says it patched the vulnerability Thursday night. It notified the FBI on Wednesday. Facebook does not yet know if people's personal information was accessed by the attackers.  "We are still in early phase of investigating this," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters Friday. "We do not yet know if any of the accounts were actually misused." Zuckerberg says Facebook has significant security measures in place but will step up efforts to lock down Facebook users' accounts. "The reality here is we face constant attacks," he said. "We need to do more to prevent this from happening in the first place." More than 90 million of Facebook’s users were forced to log out of th...